WHITEWASH

Whitewash

Make yourself feel great and

Whitewash

My existence while denying my experience so you

Whitewashed

Your fragility. Your privilege you

Whitewash

Over me, with your apology you

Whitewashed

For your ego comforts. But my own discomfort is so

Whitewashed

By your friends & allies subtly speaking

Whitewash

As my words and all my feelings are just

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For your palate, forked and falsehood speaking

Whitewash.

Mind my soul my body

Whitewashed

Brilliance beauty, culture

Whitewashed

In your blackface and appropriated

Whitewash.

Broken Treaties of Land’s peoples

Whitewashed

Crying patience, Massah’s here and

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Reservations Residential Schools that Whitewash

Faith’s Abuse, the Scoop and plundered

Whitewashed

Murdered Missing females and the

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Reconciliated

Whitewashed

Silent blindness

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Land you must Acknowledge yet you

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Every Nickname Club and Team with painted

Whitewash.

Brutalizing steeped in

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Murder Lynchings and cross burnings, try and

Whitewash

Protest voices and my people as you

Whitewash

me for being not so

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My dying and dead body that’s been

Whitewashed

By your constitutions’

Whitewash.

Cleanse, divide, dispose and

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Knees on necks of Black Lives

Whitewashed

Black Lives Matter

Whitewashed

Hidden genocidal

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Raced systemic hate that’s

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Eradication for your

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Blacks and all First Peoples,

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White supreme I see your power hooded

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Spoils and land you stole with

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Blue eyed Faith. The

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Ancestors shipped to sell your

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Greed divined as Word is Bullshit

Whitewash

but I’ll rise again ‘gainst

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Tasered Cuffs pipes fists & bullets

Whitewashed.

MAMA I CAN’T BREATHE IN ALL THIS

WHITEWASH

‘CAUSE YOU’VE

WHITEWASHED

ME

TO

DEATH!!!!

Who?

Who gives you the right to judge
The right to condemn
The right to belittle, demean, deny and discard
The right to legitimise your inactions
The right to justify your actions
To the detriment of my own
Who gives you the right to dictate what is right
Therefore what is wrong
To be deaf and mute and call that Faith
To crusade and mission and call that God
To quote lines without thought
Words without meaning
Intent upon one’s own prophesies
To kill, to hurt, to cause pain discriminately
Indiscriminate senselessness
Blind and blinkered
Un-glorified vengeance  and spite
Chained paralytic of fear
Who gives you the right to hate for hate’s sake
Who dares to call that love
Tell me,
Who?